QCD and collider physics / R.K. Ellis, W.J. Stirling, B.R. Webber.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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One of the triumphs of modern particle physics has been the extent to which Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) has successfully accounted for the strong interaction processes observed at high-energy particle colliders, for example the production of heavy quarks and jets of particles, and the short-distance parton structure of the proton. This book gives a detailed overview of collider physics with special emphasis on the study of QCD. After a general description of the QCD Lagrangian, and the properties of asymptotic freedom and colour confinement which derive from it, the most important applications at high-energy colliders are described in detail. These include the production of jets, heavy quarks, electroweak gauge bosons and Higgs bosons. The various methods of measuring the strong coupling constant are summarised. Many of the theoretical results are calculated from first principles, and the book will be both a textbook and a valuable source of reference material for all particle physicists.

3.2 Heavy quark production3.3 Jet cross sections; 3.4 Event shape variables; 3.5 The triple-gluon vertex; 3.6 Gluon emission from heavy quarks; 3.7 Summary and outlook; References; 4 Deep inelastic scattering; 4.1 Deep inelastic scattering and the parton model; 4.2 The parton model from field theory; 4.3 The parton model and QCD; 4.3.1 Contribution from one-gluon emission; 4.3.2 Factorization; 4.3.3 Scaling violations and the GLAP equation; 4.3.4 Solution of the leading-order GLAP equations; 4.4 QCD fit''s to deep inelastic data; 4.5 Sum rules; 4.5.1 Gross-Llewellyn Smith sum rule

5.6.1 Independent fragmentation5.6.2 String model; 5.6.3 Cluster model; 5.7 QCD event generators; References; 6 Jet properties beyond fixed order; 6.1 Jet fragmentation; 6.1.1 Scaling violation; 6.1.2 Average multiplicity; 6.1.3 Small-x fragmentation; 6.1.4 Longitudinal fragmentation; 6.1.5 Fragmentation in deep inelastic scattering; 6.2 Generating function method; 6.3 Multiplicity distributions; 6.4 Quark and gluon jet differences; 6.5 Resummation of event shapes; 6.5.1 Exponentiation and resummation; 6.5.2 Combining with fixed-order predictions; 6.6 Resummation of jet rates

6.7 Average jet multiplicityReferences; 7 Hadroproduction of jets and photons; 7.1 The QCD improved parton model; 7.2 Factorization of the cross section; 7.3 Luminosities; 7.4 Kinematics and jet definition; 7.5 Two-jet cross sections; 7.6 Comparison with experiment; 7.7 Multijet production; 7.8 Jet profiles; 7.9 Direct photon production; References; 8 Electro weak interactions; 8.1 Gauge boson interactions; 8.2 The Higgs mechanism; 8.2.1 Boson couplings; 8.2.2 The p parameter; 8.3 Fermion multiplets and interactions; 8.3.1 Anomaly cancellation; 8.3.2 Fermion masses and couplings

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